When I got word that NS 24R had just left Macon & was heading up the Atlanta South with the 911 engine running solo, I figured it was a good enough excuse to venture south of Atlanta to get it, es... (more)

On a cold and dreary March morning, CSX Q143 makes its way through downtown Atlanta, and past the former site of Atlanta Terminal Station. The tower just to the right of the train was one of the f... (more)

Union Pacific's Rio Grande heritage SD70ACe made a trip through Atlanta on the point of grain train 46Z. It's seen here rolling through King Plow with a fresh crew on board. An intermodal train of... (more)

Usually seen traversing across the NS Central of Georgia District, NS 198 and a its power move of locomotives take an alternate route to Macon via Hotlanta. The detour comes as a result of a <... (more)

Early on the morning of July 4th the red NS engine leads rack train 27A up to CP Spring, where it will meet a southbound manifest before the crew takes the train its final few miles to CP Bridge a... (more)

With the Conrail heritage engine leading under deep blue skies, NS 174 rolls by South Yard at Henderson on the way to its swap out at Jefferson Street in Atlanta, where a North End crew will take ... (more)

A CSX empty grain train powers up the NS Atlanta South District, in order to proceed onto the W&A Subdivision and continue its journey to Crestline, OH. The day's train is lead by an ES44AC, along... (more)

With two powerful EMDs on the front end, a Jacksonville bound intermodal emerges from the tunnel underneath the Georgia International Plaza, which is home to some of Atlanta's classic structures s... (more)

A CREX ES44AC is seen bringing up the rear of an empty Plant Scherer coal train, as it passes under some of Atlanta's iconic structures.

NS 734 rolls underneath the signals at Spring, as the loaded coal train pushes on towards Plant Scherer near Juliette, GA. This train originated in the Powder River Basin and is on the final leg o... (more)

Forest Park, GA-bound autorack/local train GE44 has just entered the former Central of Georgia mainline to Macon, GA at CP Spring in downtown Atlanta. Three veteran Southern locomotives as well as... (more)

On a beautiful September day, NS GE44 departs Inman Yard for Forest Park, GA where its cars will be emptied, and the cars in the cars will be distributed to dealerships throughout the Southeast. T... (more)

After just getting off from moving freight around Inman Yard, I turned my radio on to see if 956 was close by. I heard a stop signal at Armour which allowed me to get two shots. Here he is waiting... (more)

A shiny Armour Yellow engine leads autorack train 26A through CP Spring in downtown Atlanta, where it is taking the Southern Railway main (the Central of Georgia mains are the right two tracks) th... (more)

As railroad history goes, this is about as good as it gets in Atlanta. Now abandon South Tower use to control the southern approach to Terminal Station, the largest of two nearly side by side mult... (more)